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Make Every Girl Want You
The pre-cursor to "Make Every Girl Want You: Everything from Picking-Up Girls to Having a Successful Relationship", this book has now gone out-of-print.
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2002
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June 13, 2024
Despite its provocative cover, Make Every Girl Want You has an innocuous message: be friends with women, and they will throw themselves at you. In that sense, it is one of the more uplifting and respectful pickup guides you can find. I have no issue with the core conceit of the book; being nice to women is objectively good. However, I still question its effectiveness, its efficacy, and its literary quality.
The main argument against the book’s premise is to mention the friendzone and the general desire for women to have more male friends who don’t want to have sex with them (the dreaded fake "nice guy"). There is an attempt to discredit this, but it falls flat; the friendzone is a myth because the authors say it is. Moreover, it still feels slimy to have its readers be friends with women as a path towards sexual conquest. This is less the fault of the authors, who feels like they are well-intentioned, but towards the genre the book is in. Pickup artist books are slimy by definition, and the book still presents itself as one. Women are coercible and almost treated as a different species to men (though, in fairness, men aren’t exactly presented ideally either). Even if the manipulation is designed to be positive, it still reeks of disingenuousness. Finally, the writing is just terrible. It's incredibly basic and boring, a clear amateur work. Perhaps I should cut it some slack since it is independently published, but no. I call it like I see it. Besides, there are plenty of unpublished authors who are leagues better than this.
Even then, I still can’t say that Make Every Girl Want You is an irredeemable slog. Its heart is in the right place, and if it can convince some bro to be respectful to women than that is a plus. Still, your time and money are better spent elsewhere. And if you are a lovesick man like myself, may I suggest just putting yourself out there? Better to be genuinely yourself than pretend to be some skilled seductor.
The main argument against the book’s premise is to mention the friendzone and the general desire for women to have more male friends who don’t want to have sex with them (the dreaded fake "nice guy"). There is an attempt to discredit this, but it falls flat; the friendzone is a myth because the authors say it is. Moreover, it still feels slimy to have its readers be friends with women as a path towards sexual conquest. This is less the fault of the authors, who feels like they are well-intentioned, but towards the genre the book is in. Pickup artist books are slimy by definition, and the book still presents itself as one. Women are coercible and almost treated as a different species to men (though, in fairness, men aren’t exactly presented ideally either). Even if the manipulation is designed to be positive, it still reeks of disingenuousness. Finally, the writing is just terrible. It's incredibly basic and boring, a clear amateur work. Perhaps I should cut it some slack since it is independently published, but no. I call it like I see it. Besides, there are plenty of unpublished authors who are leagues better than this.
Even then, I still can’t say that Make Every Girl Want You is an irredeemable slog. Its heart is in the right place, and if it can convince some bro to be respectful to women than that is a plus. Still, your time and money are better spent elsewhere. And if you are a lovesick man like myself, may I suggest just putting yourself out there? Better to be genuinely yourself than pretend to be some skilled seductor.
January 17, 2016
an amazing book
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